About Me

My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens); The Stormlord trilogy The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile, and writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. LATEST:
THE FORSAKEN LANDS
A clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land.
THE LASCAR'S DAGGER and THE DAGGER'S PATH available worldwide now! Final book, THE FALL OF THE DAGGER out mid-April.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Titles yet again, and a signpost

Right, here's how it is shaping up:

BOOK ONE: Rainlords of the ScarpenBOOK TWO: Masters of the Quartern or Masters of a Quartered LandBOOK THREE: Beyond a Painted FutureBOOK FOUR:Beneath A Quartered Sky orFall of Random Rain orTime Of Random Rain

Any better? Preferences anyone?

And here's another amusing street name for you.Jln is short for Jalan, which means road or street. So this is Causeway Extension Street. Written in English for some odd reason.And the street is just a tiny loop for turning around in - because the longer Jln Causeway, linking mainland and a tiny island in Semporna port, is a dead end. The street sign is in fact almost as long as the street...Tomorrow I shall be putting up some more wonderful shots from the Semporna Islands: How the other half lives...

Silly question time, but what's the chance a publisher will want to change the titles anyway? I've always been told that happens, is it true?

Could you simpify these titles?

The Rainlords, The Quartered Land, The Painted Sky, and forth one I'm not too sure on. The whole quartet is Random Rain, isn't it?

Might be just me, but I like simple titles that are going to pique my interest. Like Sean Williams' Books of the Cataclysm - The Crooked Letter, The Blood Debt, The Hanging Mountains, The Devoured Earth.

Even though you're probably whirling with all these suggestions, I hope this helpes.

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BEST FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR Shortlisted Finalist2003: for The Aware; 2004: for The Tainted; 2006: for Heart of the Mirage; 2007: for The Song of the Shiver Barrens; 2009: for The Last Stormlord 2010: for Stormlord Rising 2011: for Stormlord's Exile 2014: The Lascar's Dagger 2015: The Dagger's Path 2016: The Fall of the Dagger